9. In order to investigate a rumor that there is a greater than expected number of girls among thechildren of chemists, Science magazine conducted an informal survey of eight chemistrydepartments. A secretary in the chemistry department at Indiana University, Bloomington,thought there might be something to this rumor and made sure that every one of the 34 facultymembers in her department who have children responded to the Science survey. Altogetherthese Indiana chemists have 53 (56%) girls and 41 (44%) boys. Is this evidence that chemistsproduce more girl babies than expected? What kind of data would you prefer before drawingthis type of conclusion? Explain how your idea would make the evidence produced moreconvincing.

Hypotheses:Denote p as the true population proportion of girl children of chemists.The chemistry…

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